topic Re: iconv command in Operating System - HP-UX

iconv command

LucianoCarvalho — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:13:31 GMT

Hi Guys,

I'm tryng to run the commad below, but the system is given me an error:

#iconv -f cp1252 -t iso81 arq.txt > new-arq.txt
iconv: can not initialize the conversion

Any idea?

Re: iconv command

Ivan Krastev — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:18:39 GMT

Check for any special symbols in input file.

From iconv man - http://www.docs.hp.com/en/B9106-90007/iconv.1.html

If an input character does not belong to the code set selected by the -f option (the "from" code set), the command terminates.

regards,
ivan

Re: iconv command

LucianoCarvalho — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:40:49 GMT

Hi,

The codes cp1252 and iso81 are configured in file /usr/lib/nls/iconv/config.iconv.
Do I have to do anything else to get this conversion working?

thanks.

Re: iconv command

Dennis Handly — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:00:59 GMT

>The codes cp1252 and iso81 are configured in file /usr/lib/nls/iconv/config.iconv.
>Do I have to do anything else to get this conversion working?

I believe you can only convert from A to B if both of those are on the same line. For your two:
$ grep ^cp1252 /usr/lib/nls/iconv/config.iconv
cp1252 ucs2 cp1252=ucs2 lsbucs2.sl
cp1252 utf8 cp1252=ucs2 lsbutf8.sl
$ grep " iso81 " /usr/lib/nls/iconv/config.iconv
(The above has tabs before and after.)
...
ucs2 iso81 ucs2=iso81 lucs2hp.sl
utf8 iso81 ucs2=iso81 lutf8hp.sl

So you would need:
$ iconv -f cp1252 -t ucs2 arq.txt |
iconv -t iso81 -f ucs2 > new-arq.txt